TTC 10 Months Plus, Supporting Eachother & Staying Positive :) new thread!!

Jesse, sorry! Knew I'd mess up!! So so please all your results are fine and dh's sound ok and like they can be improved from what others say. Hope your appt next week goes well, keep us posted!

Mama, loving the gin sampling, enjoy!!

Thanks lil. Glad your hsg is over for you and hope that does the trick for you ;)

Lindsay I stopped the AC it was making me feel awful, bloated and I gained weight on it! It hadn't stopped the spotting and I gave it 4 cycles to see, but not much improvement. It did give me a longer LP but still had the spotting!

Also going au naturalle, apart from folic, b6 and epo but they are for pms mainly. And tonight, I'm going to try gin! Hahahaha! Af is here so might as well try and enjoy myself!

Hi ladies, hope you're all well and enjoying the sunshine

I can't keep up with you all. Please no one take offence at my shocking memory but from the bits I've read I'd like to say well done to Vic for pushing the docs, go girl! Yeay to m33r and lil that your tubes are both fine ladies, ginger I could have written your posts about loving having a month off - I thought I'd hate it but actually found it v relaxing and could get back to 'normal' life a bit but yes the craziness and roller coaster started again for me straightaway, hope you're doing ok, mama hurrah on the no spotting, it deserves a place in the mumsnet Guinness book of records! Lindsay, loving the au natrelle approach and fx for a longer lp (followed by a bfp please!). Maybug, happy hols to you, hope you can relax and enjoy. Blue hope you're doing ok and hanging in there and Imaginary if you're reading this I hope you're ok hon, thinking of you.

Hope that's everyone, if not I'm so sorry, but there's a lot of you to keep up with!! As for me I'm smepping it and hoping my shiny flushed tubes make a good route for dh's little fellas!!

mama are you still on the agnus castus? I stopped it in a right funk after the 2nd cycle on it was such a crappy luteal phase! Haha! Also stopped all my prenatals (including folic acid- GASP!) and have gone completely au nutarale! Had a decent LP of 10 days last month, but the proof of whether or not it is actually improving will be this second month I guess.

mama That is amazing! No spotting at all and better PMS symptoms! :-))))

It is also must be the week for appointment letters because we just got our through today. It's still 5 weeks away but at least it's sorted now.

What should I expect at this first appiointment? It says DH should come but doesn't say anything about what the consultant will be doing. Do you think she will run any scans or anything or just talk to us and then refer me back for scans etc?

mama in the spirit of positivity I'm going to snub your AF and congratulate you on no spotting instead! sounds like you've made some impressive changes on the diet, so hopefully you'll be pg within the magic 3months!

hsg went well apart from breaking down in tears the minute I got in there . looks like my tubes are OK but they have a more detailed look at pictures before my appt. appt will be 4-6weeks apparently. more waiting!

Hi ladies! Full flow has arrived! 23 day cycle with no warning! But I don't feel I should count that tiny bit of spotting yesterday since af is full flow today; which means for the 1st time in 13 cycles- no pre af spotting!!!!!! :) and I am certain it's to do with the change in my diet! It has to be as that's all I've changed this cycle!

Also no sore boobs, no af pain/cramps apart from small cramps for a very short while yesterday but nothing today so far.

I will be remaining on this diet!!! :) have lost 7lbs so far and af appears much better! And I'm not an emotional wreck with af arrival, I feel ok.

So onwards and upwards to my 1st appointment! :)

They never showed me my ovaries! She kept the screen pointed away towards her the whole time and didn't explain what was going on! No fair! That was back in April. Only now know that I had a ruptured follicle showing recent ovulation from talking to the good doctor that has hopefully referred us!

Thanks vic. I had indeed been comparing my experience with yours and I really hope we can enjoy our holiday as much as you did.

Am going to disappear from here for the next 10 days so that I limit my obsession and hopefully help me to forget. I'll be back once I know the answers.

Have a fantastic week all. I hope I return to some bfp's!

Thanks M33R, yes I think I'm gona go on my own for 1st one. It's not with the fertility clinic, just gynae so feel ok about it. But my friend will meet me straight after for sure. Oh I so hope there's nothing wrong with my ovaries it's such a scary thought.

Thanks ladies for all the advice and kind words...you are too lovely! :)

Spotting has not been back since late afternoon when I had the cramps. Nothing since but I'd say it will increase over the next couple of days with full flow on sat.

The spotting is so much better though, I wonder if my diet has anything to do with it as that's really the only thing that has changed.

I understand completely May. You prob read all the hassle we had getting dh's sa results? We were meant to get the results of ours before our hol too. In the end we left calling the docs until after we got back, and I'm glad we did. The holiday actually took our minds off thinking about the results. We had a great time and I'm just so glad we didn't know. I hope you can enjoy your holiday too.

Sounds like your docs are even worse than mine though! They shouldnt be allowed to get away with leaving people hanging and not knowing the results of their own tests on their own bodies! Ooo it makes me so cross! I hope things get better for you soon. Few deep breaths and keeping fighting!

Sorry mama. Was sending 'positive' thoughts but maybe that just helped the letter and appointment arrive instead. What lovely timing. Hope it makes this week bearable for you.

Dh phoned doctors but they wouldn't tell him anything over the phone not even why the 2nd test pack wasn't available. Just insisted he made an appointment for the doctor.

We fly to Crete on Saturday for a week so he made an appointment for our first Monday home. I think he realised I couldn't wait any longer.
Has to be bad news though doesn't it?!

Bad timing though as it now will hang over us for our first foreign holiday in 3 years which I was so looking forward to. I'll ov while we're away to so was planning a holiday full of dtd. I know I'm going to struggle now though knowing there's likely a problem.

Once we have dh results I'll also make appointment so I can understand my results better. Just hoping the no further action means there isn't a problem target than they're trying to save money!

So wishing I'd pushed my last GP more to start these tests. It's been over 2 years ttc. Will be hard to take to find out a simple sa could have got us having the right treatments/appointments/waiting lists a year ago...

Anyway here's to 10 days of trying not to think about it and 7 days of sun whilst clearly not thinking of anything but

Thanks for all your support.
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I have to go to gynae for all the tests then they refer on to the fertility clinic after the tests have been completed. I will definately bring him for the fertility clinic part but thinking if just gynae stuff initially I don't mind going alone. I'm actually a bit weird like that, sometimes I like to deal and cope with things on my own but I know come the fertility part I will def want and need him there!

I was told to take dh fwiw. but it was not gynae appt it was in the fertility clinic. I agree about the waiting room. that was weird!

Thanks M33R, DH would book it off if I wanted him to but it's just a gynae appointment so I'm just thinking might be ok alone. My friend is going to meet me straight after though, she has offered to come along but I said no need. But lunch afterwards with her will help.

Thanks lil. I've accepted af on the way, have cramps and that means spotting will become steady til full flow af on sat! Your right though, I will stay positive as the letter couldn't have been better timing really!

I'm going to go on 1st appointment on my own so I will bring DH SA result printout with me. DH is working and I don't want to get him to book leave as I'm sure it will be needed for more important appointments in the near future. I will see what the letter says when it comes with appointment time.

I'm going to focus on the many positive things we have organised for summer and the fact that the fertility support is hopefully not too far away now. Guess I'm lucky to get the appointment for end of June rather than august as expected!

may if I were you I'd want to know what wasn't conclusive. book am appointment and speak to the Dr and find out just how good the results were. it may be your rubella or something was inconclusive and that's just a jab if necessary but best to get it done.

mama focus on the positives. 26th June is really soon. and your not out yet! at my first appt we saw Sr nurse who took some basic notes. do we smoke, drink, how long was I on the pill, any family history stuff like that. they also booked my internal USS and tried to book hsg as I was at right point in cycle but there were no appts. they mentioned our previous tests briefly. she tried to make out dhs results weren't really bad which was just confusing more than anything. I've read some ppl have USS at that first appt though.

Found tiny bit of light brown cm at C. I'd say that's me out is the beginning of the spotting. Glad the appointment letter came today, at least I can focus on that.

Can anyone tell me what they will do on my first appointment???